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Show 8 2 ON THE PORES IN CHLAMYDOSAURUS KINGII. [M a y 1 7 , May 17, 1904. H ow ard S a u n d e r s , Esq., F .L .S ., Yice-Rresident, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1904:- The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of April was 111, of which 46 were by presentation and 20 by purchase, 20 were born in the Gardens, and 25 were received on deposit. The number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 96. Amongst the additions attention may be called to :- 1. A fine specimen of the Boatbill (Canchroma cochlearia), purchased on April 1st. 2. Two Cheetahs (Cyncelurus jubatus), from the Soudan, presented by Col. B. Mahon, C.B., F.Z.S., on April 18th. 3. Two Keas (Nestor notabilis), presented by Mr. T. E. Doune, on April 26th. Dr. W . T. Caiman, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a blind crustacean (Munidopsis polymorjyha), from a subterranean lake in the Island of Lanzarote, Canaries, collected by Mr. Fairfax Prevost. The species was described in 1892 by Dr. Koelbel, of Vienna, from specimens collected by Prof. Simony, but appears to have been overlooked by recent writers on the group to which it belongs. The lake in which it is found is salt and communicates with the sea, the water rising and falling with the tide. All the other species of the genus, over 100 in number, are inhabitants of the deep sea, none being recorded from a depth of less than about 100 fathoms. Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., exhibited the body of an example of the Lizard Chlamydosaurus kivgii which had died in the Menagerie some years ago, and made the following remarks upon the absence of femoral pores :- Mr. Boulenger has pointed out (Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus.) that while the Australian Agamidae with one exception possess femoral pores, these structures, are as a rule, wanting in that family. Among those in which the femoral pores are described, or at least asserted to be present and in definite numbers, is the genus Chlamydosaurus. The original describer of the genus, and of the species, Dr. Gray (in King's ‘ Survey of Australia,' vol. ii. p. 424 et seq.), however, observed that it was " destitute of femoral pores." Dumeril and Bibron (‘ Erpetologie generale,' p. 440) make use of the phrase " Des pores femoraux " as part of their definition of the genus. As this absolute contradiction occurs, I have thought it worth while to exhibit to the Society a male example in which there are certainly no femoral pores fully comparable to those of |